Manafort speaks
I’m not sure we needed to ever hear from this creep again, but he’s written a book that apparently has one bit of news:
“I didn’t want anything to get in the way of the president’s re-election or, importantly, a potential pardon,” Trump’s 2016 campaign manager writes in his new book.
In May 2020, as Covid-19 ravaged the prison system, Manafort was released to home confinement. He stayed in an apartment in northern Virginia. From there, he re-established contact with Trumpworld.
“But when the re-election campaign started kicking off, I was interacting, unofficially, with friends of mine who were very involved. It was killing me not to be there, but I was advising indirectly from my condo.”
The startling admission is spelled out in Political Prisoner: Persecuted, Prosecuted, but Not Silenced, a memoir that will be published in the US next month. The Guardian obtained a copy.
As you know, he got his pardon in late December. I wonder what advice he had for Trump? After all, the guy had been involved in some very dubious elections around the world for decades. He knew a lot about election stealing.